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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

Ben Elton

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
BEN ELTON

Advice Looks Novel
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
I don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
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Nice People Thinking
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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Silly Stupid Wish
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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Believe Groups Looks
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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Mistake Risk Running
Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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Artist Crete Reflect Society
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
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Done Made Want
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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Beens Comedy Instinct
People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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First Little People
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
BEN ELTON

Hippie Self Thinking

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

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